Planning for Electric Utility Solar Applications: The Effects on Reliability and Production Cost Estimates of the Variability in Demand

Problems in the Integration of Intermittent Sources into Utility Production Costing Models

“…In• a previous paper [2], the authors have pre•senteii a Lemma which implies that uncertainty in the forecast is a matter of concern only in limited neighborhoods around the minimum and maximum values of the• LDC. Essential to the result is that a straight line through the inflection point of the LDC gives a reasonable fit except for • the upper and lower neighborhoods.…”